228 Seventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

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4-story commercial building completed in 1930. Designed by Aaron G. Alexander, it is clad in dark-red brick above a ground floor with a black metal-and-glass storefront and recessed black metal door between black iron end piers. The upper floors have bands of four windows, although the top floor has been altered to a trio of windows alternating with narrow panes. Each window band has a stone sill and brick lintel. The brick spandrels between floors each have three geometric shapes in the brickwork. Above the 4th floor's lintel there are three small limestone diamond shapes, and the facade is crowned by a brick roof parapet with squares formed by trios of brick in alternating orientations. There is another stone diamond in the center, herringbone-pattern panels at the ends, and the roof line has a stone coping, stepped up at the ends, and toward the center, where there is a peak. The ground floor is occupied by Bicycle Habitat bike store.